Numbers and data, in addition to nutrition, have a major role in today's cycling. What remains a mystery is how all those different numbers are measured and interpreted by different teams. Josu Larrazabal, head of performance at
Lidl-Trek, tries to explain how things work.
"For coaches and sports scientists, figures are like a photo," the Spaniard says on the Lidl-Trek website. "They tell the facts as they are. They demonstrate an athlete's performance through a simple language of recognized statistics."